Blue Spaces: Imagining a Future of Possibilities 

What's Been Lost Elsewhere, and What We Must Protect and Reclaim:

Swimmable Cities: Reclaiming BLUE Spaces

• Swimmable Cities are transforming urban waterways (The European Commission, January 2025)

  • Swimmable Cities champions the Right to Swim, celebrates urban swimming and honours nature: Empowering Actors to inspire Decision-Makers.

• Swimming in urban waterways across the world should be a right, say campaigners (The Guardian, June 2025)

  • Swimmable Cities summit in Rotterdam wants to change cleanliness of waterways and people’s relationship to them.

• Swimming to Work? How Cities Around the World Are Making Their Rivers Swimmable Again (Adventure.com Publication of the Year, September 2025)

• Swimming to Work in Switzerland, CNN, July 2025

The Big Swim: Urban Swimming, The Right to Swim, and Reclaiming the World's Rivers for Communities Globally